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SA has decreased revenue by 90% in the past year, and new registrations are estimated at 5,000 per year and decreasing. How would BFC save the forums? This is the most educated forum of stockbrokers, IT Professionals, self employed wunderkinds, and consultants, so if anyone can come up with a plan, we can! I'll get everyone started: work with the app developers to charge $9.99 per mobile app. Create a marketing and recruiting blitz on Reddit's Personal Finance section to move all the 20 year old college students to here so they can learn from 30 year old graduate students about money.
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anne frank fanfic posted:SA has decreased revenue by 90% in the past year, and new registrations are estimated at 5,000 per year and decreasing. How would BFC save the forums? This is the most educated forum of stockbrokers, IT Professionals, self employed wunderkinds, and consultants, so if anyone can come up with a plan, we can! Ban everyone. Take the windfall from reregs and liquidate all assets.
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Sep 26, 2015 17:43
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You have literally wasted a dozen years of your life being an FYAD human being
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Sep 26, 2015 19:09
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It is basically impossible for a forum (or even a full-fledged social media site) to make a profit. Even Reddit is losing money and they've got venture capitalist money out the wazoo.
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Sep 26, 2015 22:47
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JohnGalt posted:Ban everyone. Take the windfall from reregs and liquidate all assets. This is the only answer, the exact same thing I'd tell someone if they were running a business that was dying due to progress like a newspaper.
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Sep 26, 2015 22:52
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anne frank fanfic posted:SA has decreased revenue by 90% in the past year, and new registrations are estimated at 5,000 per year and decreasing. How would BFC save the forums? Step 1: Update password to "do you have escalators in your house?" Step 2: Create new section devoted to premium/exclusive iPhone 6+ porn. Step 3: Create underground word-of-mouth network with public highschools/colleges across the nation. Step 4: Shut it down once gov't fatheads (politicians wearing suits) start grandstanding and complaining (ideally 3-4 years after inception). Step 5: Repeat cycle in 10-15 years using hologram technology or whatever. You're welcome. Also, do they have Chaturbate for the iPhone yet? That might pose a problem.
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Sep 26, 2015 22:53
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We really need to work on Lowtax's personal finances first. If you've seen the car parked outside the SA office you'll understand. Other than that trying to revive forums when most of the people on the internet are barely literate is a foolish task.
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First, I'd outsource GBS to India as it's a case where Quantity > Quality actually works. Next, to cut our electrical expenses, we have tasked the good netizens of Science, Academics and Languages to develop a new source of energy for the servers. So far, our best bets are composting shitposts and using everyone who argues with Nintendo Kid as a triboelectric generator. To save on hosting costs, we'll rehost SA through the Private Game Servers subforum. If those servers could run pre-Microsoft Minecraft no problem, I'm sure it can handle whatever's left of Radium's code. Last but not least, we will sell organic honey harvested from our community's lucrative investment in beecocks.
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Sep 27, 2015 00:21
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Use the power of the cloud and go social
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Sep 27, 2015 01:24
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I won $20 on a scratcher today. Lowtax should just buy a couple thousand scratchers.
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Sep 27, 2015 01:31
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If I fix it, I want to profit from it.
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Sep 27, 2015 01:34
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"Who is Lowtax?" underground graffiti viral marketing campaign 1000$ for a visit from Shmorky or 2000$ to have Shmorky visit a user of your choice Sell T-shirts with various Photoshop Phriday pictures on them
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Sep 27, 2015 02:21
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Hire someone to port all of the database to a fresh bulletin board install and run it on a dreamhost server.
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Sep 27, 2015 02:23
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Swap hosts to geocities to reduce costs. Move from absolute purchases of accounts to a a dollar a month subscription model.
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Sep 27, 2015 02:58
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Dead Pressed posted:Move from absolute purchases of accounts to a a dollar a month subscription model. This is the actual answer. Message boards are dying but SA's large enough and has a committed enough userbase to be self-sufficient with a subscription model.
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Sep 27, 2015 03:25
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op you're fine enough in your element but please keep your twee bullshit out of the best subforum on SA thansks
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Sep 27, 2015 05:03
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Change the owner, change the name, move the forums to something that doesn't look like the 90's, charge a subscription
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Sep 27, 2015 05:29
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Claim the finances of the forum are broken, make up a bunch of numbers to justify begging for ~$100k in donations from goons every year. Have a donation drive with maybe some crappy schwag / custom avatars. Create a donation counter system that cooks the books and actually collects $125/150k.
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n8r posted:Claim the finances of the forum are broken, make up a bunch of numbers to justify begging for ~$100k in donations from goons every year. Have a donation drive with maybe some crappy schwag / custom avatars. Create a donation counter system that cooks the books and actually collects $125/150k. Ah, the freep model. This is apparently a winning strategy.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Hire someone to port all of the database to a fresh bulletin board install and run it on a dreamhost server. All these problems are going to be solved with Titan comes out.
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n8r posted:Claim the finances of the forum are broken, make up a bunch of numbers to justify begging for ~$100k in donations from goons every year. Have a donation drive with maybe some crappy schwag / custom avatars. Create a donation counter system that cooks the books and actually collects $125/150k. This but instead of a donation drive to help SA, make it to open a hot dog stand in the rural South
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Sep 27, 2015 16:19
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Focus forums on Let's Play. Give top LPers their own subforums. Accept donations that are split between the forums and the LPers. Maybe also do a Patreon thing where people can pay to get early episodes of their favorite LPs. Have everything crumble as LPers turn into money-hungry drama queens.Dead Pressed posted:Move from absolute purchases of accounts to a a dollar a month subscription model.
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Sep 27, 2015 17:07
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Create sub forums for different languages to profit from growth in the developing world while at the same time selling admin privileges to CIA/Shin Bet/FSB/ISI etc to profit from those even sweeter defense industry dollars.
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Sep 27, 2015 17:57
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Have recurring Purge style events where all name/av changes are free, after the fact people will pay to get their old ones back. Also make it cost more each time you change it, but buying a new account will reset the cost.
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Out people as goons to their family and coworkers with printouts of their posting habits unless they pay extortion money and mule drugs. OK I'm done, i can't think of anything more profitable. Guest2553 fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Sep 27, 2015 |
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Guest2553 posted:Have recurring Purge style events where all name/av changes are free, after the fact people will pay to get their old ones back. Also make it cost more each time you change it, but buying a new account will reset the cost. I'm willing to guess that Helldump and LF were immensely profitable for the forums, except for Secret Service visits.
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Sep 27, 2015 18:10
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Sep 27, 2015 18:35
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SA used to sell mugs and hats and things and stopped doing that, but that's probably the best revenue model apart from making the main forums good again. Other ideas: - kidnap ThreeOlives and hold him for ransom - get written into the will of that old rich fyad guy who had a pool, what was his name? - remake Helldump, make it a public forum, and let people pay to delete threads about themselves (edit: and other people can bid against them to keep the threads open) moana fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Sep 28, 2015 |
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Sep 28, 2015 00:50
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Open another pregnancy thread called PreggoChat and charge a nickel per post.
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Sep 28, 2015 00:54
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Cloud plus crowdfunding = wicked monetezation kid
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Is SA in need of fixing? Sites come and sites go, 4chan got sold, Reddit is a big flaming mess and it is difficult to see an alternative around the corner. 90% in revenue cut, where is that number coming from? Where was the revenue coming from in the first place? I am not up to date on the current SA business model, but seems that it was not sustainable in the end. Two suggestions I have seen that should work to increase revenue: - Monthly / yearly subscription model - Donations drive (yearly?) Things to cut cost: - stop paying developers (obviously done already) - Lowtax gets another source of income - Turn of the servers Keep in mind that stopping the site when the business model is no longer valid, is always a option.
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Sep 28, 2015 11:03
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I wasn't aware SA had a business model, but the easy way is just to dump some of the old archives.
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You know, there's probably some really great blackmail material in E/N. I bet it's worth a lot to the right buyer.
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Sep 28, 2015 15:15
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Barring the best option of liquidate all assets: Make SA only available via a downloadable UI which turns your CPU into a bitcoin mining/cloud computing operation while idle. Include a EULA stating all users are now contractors and are responsible as such. Sit back and collect that sweet sweet VC by stating how 'disruptive' and 'visionary' the HSLD business model is. Use a fraction of rich peoples money to keep any challenges to your system tied up in court. Then liquidate all assets.
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Sep 28, 2015 16:18
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Get rid of probations, go back to a ban only moderation model.
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Sep 28, 2015 16:42
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Fundraiser for Blue Story star wars room pics. SA gets to take 10%.
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Sep 28, 2015 17:06
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Make it Mac only. Those people overpay for antiquated things exclusive to them all the time.
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Sep 28, 2015 18:48
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moana posted:SA used to sell mugs and hats and things and stopped doing that, but that's probably the best revenue model apart from making the main forums good again. Like, they'll release ThreeOlives unless we pay? I'd donate to that.
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Sep 28, 2015 19:16
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Forums redirect to /r/somethingisawful, claim it was always that way.
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Sep 28, 2015 19:28
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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